Cara Santa Maria

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5,391 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

Cara Santa Maria’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #859 - Dec 25 2021 podcast

It's fun because the stories are all very unique. matched

I think more are the asshole. matched

Do you feel like his explanation sort of lets the asshole off the hook a little bit? matched

I feel like it downplays... matched

Their responsibility. matched

But sometimes that person knows it all. matched

It assumes that everybody has an equal chance of being right and wrong, and that's simply not true. matched

Some people are wrong much more often, and some people are right much more often. matched

Like there's a person who's not very self-aware and there's a person who literally thinks what they say matters more than other people. matched

And that's two different categories. matched

But there's the other scale too. matched

But that's a different scenario because there's also just a level of psychopathy that exists. matched

And I think that's people with no remorse and people who will do things simply to get ahead and really don't have moral issues with it. matched

Yeah, and I mean, those are real. matched

Like, we could probably amend this definition of an asshole and the real real asshole in the room. matched

But there is like a psychopathy brain. matched

I mean it's like people who study this can see patterns in neural architecture. matched

But the interesting thing is that they say that criminality as related to psychopathy often is behavioral. matched

So you might have this psychopathy brain, but if you're nurtured and you have a lot of like loving interactions and a lot of good social support – matched

You may be unaware of things and make decisions, and people in your life are like, oh, yeah, you're completely out of step with. matched

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